Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 64 77
Rank change year-on-year -31 +13 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,883 1,973 3,180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 4.05% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 4.47% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 996 2,333
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 1,673 £75,000 +0.67% 686
UK excluding London -55 987 £65,000 -7.14% 407
Work from Home -20 857 £65,500 -6.43% 313
London -12 750 £85,000 +3.03% 372
North of England -41 362 £69,310 -3.72% 126
South East -11 263 £65,000 -7.14% 115
North West -48 198 £75,000 +7.14% 69
South West -53 110 £56,250 -17.91% 54
Midlands -57 97 £65,000 -3.70% 51
North East +23 83 £65,000 +18.18% 25
Yorkshire -25 81 £62,500 -13.49% 32
West Midlands -42 69 £77,500 +10.71% 32
East of England -17 50 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Wales -21 44 £70,000 +34.62% 15
Northern Ireland -32 33 £62,500 +25.00% 14
Scotland -68 30 £60,000 -23.23% 22
East Midlands -59 27 £64,000 +0.39% 19
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (1.75%) Confluence
2 25 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.90%) CMS
4 16 (0.85%) Apache
4 16 (0.85%) IIS
5 10 (0.53%) JBoss
6 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.42%) Camunda
8 7 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.37%) WordPress
9 6 (0.32%) nginx
10 5 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.27%) Drupal
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.16%) DNN
12 3 (0.16%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 995 (52.84%) AWS
2 823 (43.71%) Azure
3 336 (17.84%) GCP
4 273 (14.50%) Serverless
5 222 (11.79%) GitHub
6 184 (9.77%) SaaS
7 161 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (5.74%) Amazon S3
11 99 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 92 (4.89%) GitHub Copilot
13 88 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 77 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (3.40%) Azure AKS
17 61 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
18 59 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
19 51 (2.71%) PaaS
20 48 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.40%) Broadband
2 24 (1.27%) Network Security
3 14 (0.74%) MQTT
4 13 (0.69%) DMARC
5 11 (0.58%) DNS
6 9 (0.48%) AMQP
7 8 (0.42%) Firewall
7 8 (0.42%) Internet
7 8 (0.42%) VPN
8 7 (0.37%) DHCP
8 7 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.32%) HTTP
9 6 (0.32%) RFID
9 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.27%) LTE
11 3 (0.16%) Modbus
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) SNMP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (15.83%) MongoDB
2 212 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (10.73%) NoSQL
4 164 (8.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (8.44%) Elasticsearch
6 119 (6.32%) MySQL
7 95 (5.05%) SQL Server
8 85 (4.51%) Relational Database
9 58 (3.08%) Redis
10 53 (2.81%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.70%) Big Data
13 23 (1.22%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.64%) Db2
15 12 (0.64%) DTS
15 12 (0.64%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.53%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 222 (11.79%) Git
2 178 (9.45%) GitLab
3 148 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 59 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 56 (2.97%) JIRA
6 53 (2.81%) JUnit
7 43 (2.28%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.70%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.70%) Mockito
9 30 (1.59%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.49%) Maven
11 27 (1.43%) CircleCI
12 21 (1.12%) Selenium
13 18 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 15 (0.80%) JMeter
14 15 (0.80%) Vite
15 13 (0.69%) Postman
15 13 (0.69%) REST Assured
16 11 (0.58%) Spock
General
1 464 (24.64%) Finance
2 329 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 181 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 160 (8.50%) Banking
5 119 (6.32%) Law
6 115 (6.11%) Retail
7 103 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 97 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
9 56 (2.97%) Financial Institution
10 50 (2.66%) Back Office
11 44 (2.34%) Legal
12 31 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.59%) Marketing
14 28 (1.49%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.27%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.01%) Advertising
18 18 (0.96%) Games
19 16 (0.85%) Billing
20 13 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 691 (36.70%) Developer
2 443 (23.53%) Senior
3 360 (19.12%) Software Engineer
4 280 (14.87%) Lead
5 260 (13.81%) Architect
6 202 (10.73%) .NET Developer
7 147 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 145 (7.70%) Java Developer
8 145 (7.70%) Senior Developer
9 128 (6.80%) Java Engineer
10 117 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 106 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
12 101 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 89 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
14 78 (4.14%) Software Developer
15 69 (3.66%) Lead Developer
16 68 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
17 55 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
18 53 (2.81%) Technical Leader
19 52 (2.76%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 504 (26.77%) .NET
2 421 (22.36%) React
3 418 (22.20%) Node.js
4 309 (16.41%) Spring
5 286 (15.19%) Spring Boot
6 275 (14.60%) RESTful
7 246 (13.06%) REST
8 227 (12.06%) ASP.NET
9 221 (11.74%) Kafka
10 215 (11.42%) .NET Core
11 204 (10.83%) AngularJS
12 193 (10.25%) Vue
13 187 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
14 109 (5.79%) ASP.NET Web API
15 103 (5.47%) Blazor
16 101 (5.36%) .NET Framework
17 90 (4.78%) HTML
18 84 (4.46%) CSS
19 82 (4.35%) gRPC
20 71 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 572 (30.38%) Cloud Native
2 315 (16.73%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (7.01%) Product Ownership
4 94 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
5 82 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 47 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.39%) Over-the-Top Content
10 39 (2.07%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.86%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.49%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 26 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
15 25 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.12%) Mobile App
17 18 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.05%) Linux
2 45 (2.39%) Windows
3 20 (1.06%) Unix
4 16 (0.85%) CentOS
4 16 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.32%) Debian
5 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
7 3 (0.16%) Android
7 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (51.14%) CI/CD
2 874 (46.42%) Agile
3 682 (36.22%) Software Engineering
4 671 (35.63%) DevOps
5 542 (28.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 435 (23.10%) Containerisation
7 432 (22.94%) Mentoring
8 391 (20.76%) Test Automation
9 390 (20.71%) Event-Driven
10 374 (19.86%) AI
11 362 (19.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 359 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 323 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
14 272 (14.45%) Scrum
15 242 (12.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 242 (12.85%) Technical Leadership
16 239 (12.69%) TDD
17 209 (11.10%) Clean Code
18 207 (10.99%) Coaching
19 199 (10.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 614 (32.61%) Java
2 503 (26.71%) C#
3 478 (25.39%) SQL
4 455 (24.16%) Python
5 429 (22.78%) JavaScript
6 353 (18.75%) TypeScript
7 120 (6.37%) Go
8 51 (2.71%) Scala
9 43 (2.28%) C++
9 43 (2.28%) PHP
9 43 (2.28%) Ruby
10 41 (2.18%) Bash
11 26 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 25 (1.33%) Rust
13 24 (1.27%) Bicep
13 24 (1.27%) C
14 15 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.64%) Groovy
17 11 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 243 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 173 (9.19%) Degree
3 161 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 54 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.22%) CISSP
9 20 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.48%) PhD
14 8 (0.42%) CISM
15 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.37%) MBA
16 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.27%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (8.50%) QA
2 65 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 42 (2.23%) GDPR
4 38 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.43%) WCAG
6 24 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.17%) NIST
9 16 (0.85%) NCSC
10 15 (0.80%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.27%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) PSD2
17 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 547 (29.05%) Docker
2 22 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 581 (30.86%) Kubernetes
2 349 (18.53%) Terraform
3 107 (5.68%) Ansible
4 99 (5.26%) Grafana
5 58 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.33%) Argo
7 19 (1.01%) Puppet
8 18 (0.96%) Kibana
9 13 (0.69%) Cilium
10 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.21%) Packer
13 4 (0.21%) Podman
14 3 (0.16%) Rancher
15 2 (0.11%) Istio
15 2 (0.11%) MIIS
15 2 (0.11%) Nagios
15 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
16 1 (0.053%) logstash
Vendors
1 297 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 79 (4.20%) Google
3 59 (3.13%) Oracle
4 45 (2.39%) Typelevel
5 36 (1.91%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.49%) Splunk
7 26 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 20 (1.06%) IBM
9 19 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.90%) Databricks
11 14 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 13 (0.69%) Adobe
12 13 (0.69%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.64%) OneLogin
14 11 (0.58%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.58%) SAP
15 10 (0.53%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.42%) Cisco
16 8 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
17 7 (0.37%) HubSpot